Family

"God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease."
Frank Knox



Impossible?

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"

Audrey Hepburn

Be Nice

"Be nice to those you meet on the way up.  They're the same folks you'll meet on the way down." 

Walter Winchell, 1932

The Future

"The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow.  Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show."

Author Unknown

Visions

"For visions come not to polluted eyes."

Mary Howitt

Seeds

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

Robert Louis Stevenson

Corrections

"The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future."

Shiloh Morrison

Our Deepest Fear

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Nelson Mandela in his 1994 inaugural speech

Busy Signal

"I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance.  Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal - and soon they'll forget my number."

Edith Armstrong

Death

"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."
Helen Keller

Veterans Day

"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."

Jose Narosky

Full Moon

"The growing and dying of the moon reminds us of our ignorance which comes and goes- but when the moon is full it is as if the Great Spirit were upon the whole world."

Black Elk, Oglala Sioux

Understanding

"Between our birth and death we may touch understanding,

As a moth brushes a window with its wing."
Christopher Fry

Joy and Pain

"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain."
Joseph Campbell

Anger

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."
Mark Twain

The True Story

"...there were no boundaries or borders.  It was as if my mind had once long ago made up a story about separate objects with boundaries but the story wasn't true.  The true story is that there is a luminous, spacious energy that flows through everything all the time.  It's within matter, within things as well as within space, and you can tune in to it at any time, just like changing the frequency on the radio.  There is no distance between this essence and ourselves.  It is not otherworldly.  it is right here, closer than our own flesh." 

Vijali Hamilton

The Power of the World

"You have noticed that everything as Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round... The Sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours... Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves."

Black Elk, Oglala Sioux

Lead

"You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right."
Phil Crosby

Walk with Nature

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."
John Muir

A Loving Heart

"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge."
Thomas Carlyle

Dawn

"All of this Creation is Sacred and so do not forget.

Every dawn as it comes is a holy event and everyday is holy, for the light comes from "WAKAN-TANKA" And also you must remember that the two-leggeds and all other peoples who stand upon this Earth are sacred and should be treated as such."

"White Buffalo Woman" Sioux Sacred Woman,

quoted by Black Elk , (Oglala Sioux) 1947